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What’s the “selfie” called in French? (#762)

11 April 2014 by OffQc

6 gigs, ça fait beaucoup de selfies

6 gigs, ça fait beaucoup de selfies

I saw this ad in the street from Vidéotron advertising a smartphone special.

6 Go
Ça fait beaucoup de selfies

6 GB
That’s a lot of selfies

Sorry for the quality of the image. There was a lot of light when I took the photo, and I had to position myself to avoid getting my fat face de bœuf in the reflection.

Go (gigaoctet), gigabyte
Mo (mégaoctet), megabyte
ko (kilooctet), kilobyte

Gigaoctet is often shortened to gig when speaking, and mégaoctet to meg.

The selfie is a picture taken of yourself with your phone. When I was at university, before cellphones and later smartphones took over the planet (and before I had even sent my very first email ever), we used to playfully call the selfie une autophoto in French!

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Update (2014/04/11)

Some readers have made comments that I’d like to add here. On Twitter, @desrosier_j suggests moivatar for selfie. In the comments below, iericksen mentioned égoportrait. On the OffQc Facebook page, Maria pointed out that the OQLF has already recommended autophoto and égoportrait.

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Posted in Entries #751-800 | Tagged ad, advertisement, autophoto, égoportrait, français québécois, gigaoctet, kilooctet, mégaoctet, moivatar, OQLF, pub, publicité, Québécois French, selfie, smartphone, téléphone intelligent, Vidéotron | 6 Comments

6 Responses

  1. on 11 April 2014 at 14:24 iericksen

    « Égoportrait » est en hausse ces temps-ci.


    • on 11 April 2014 at 14:31 OffQc

      Un terme tout indiqué, surtout sur Facebook.


  2. on 11 April 2014 at 16:13 cyr

    m’as-tu-vu…


  3. on 11 April 2014 at 16:14 cyr

    m,as-tuvu elle est déjà en francais


  4. on 11 April 2014 at 19:17 Jude

    If the OQLF has already “recommended’ the other 2… my vote is 100%…
    moivatar!ude


  5. on 11 April 2014 at 19:17 Jude

    Sorry… something happened in there!
    moivatar
    it is then!



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